On dragons being here.

So you got there early and took your seats in, if not splendid isolation, then certainly the dead centre of the cinema.
And B raised a slightly satirical eyebrow, which was intended as a comment on your earlier vigorously expressed opinion that 2pm on a wet Saturday afternoon would see the showing of a recently released [...]

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On words or phrases that will be banned come the revolution part two.

“One of the things that was most surprising,” said a British journalist to a filmmaker from the USA last week, “was that your new film contained flashes of irony. We didn’t think the Americans could do irony.”
The British are very proud of their ironic sense of humour. Well, we call it a sense of humour. The Russians [...]

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On deja vu.

You’ve missed rather a lot of rehearsals for your latest choral extravaganza, so the full glory of the Bach and Vivaldi Glorias you are planning to inflict on the public have only now started bursting in upon you.
It was all the little black notes in the Bach that were immediately worrying. So little and so black [...]

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On celebrating.

Today is my first Blogiversary.
There I was, a year ago today, writing about football. Of all things. 
The year hasn’t been an unmitigated success.
But the blog is a lot of fun.
I think I’ll keep it.
 Happy Blogiversary, blog!
           

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